The Oxbarrows live in a small village on the Lancashire moors. The father, Richard, has recently died, but his thirteen-year-old daughter Rosie refuses to believe it. When a retired psychiatrist is persuaded to try to help the family through their grief, he finds himself caught up in the customs of the remote community, and an older way of doing things... The gripping, unsettling and beautifully written new novel by the author of "The Loney".